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“I’m really interested in what all of this modernization, this tumultuous change, has done to the psychology of ordinary people. There are people who leave their children behind in their native villages with the grandparents and go back only once a year. Now, there’s this huge development of so-called cities: people are moved to apartment complexes out of their original villages. They leave their communities, they go to different schools. It’s probably leading to a lot of social problems in China and it’s very much underrepresented.” Read more...
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